But not a glance from that proud ring

Of peers who circled round the King,

With Douglas held communion kind,

Or call’d the banish’d man to mind;

No, not from those who, at the chase,

Once held his side the honor’d place,

Begirt[312] his board, and, in the field,

Found safety underneath his shield;

For he, whom royal eyes disown,

When was his form to courtiers known!